Screenplays and Tinder

Finals are over and it's time to get my blog running again. School has been insane this year and I am genuinely sorry I haven't written more because I'm sure my viewers have been lost without a constant stream of education mixed in with a few laughs.

"His life is so pathetic!"

Most of my viewers are puzzled, because a major component is missing from my life equation when I'm not writing in my blog. First off here is what a normal college student's life equation looks like.

School+Friends+Social Activities+Activities of Individual Growth =Overall Sense of Well Being

Typically this is what my life equation looked like.

School+Blog+Arguing on Twitter+Avoiding Interaction with Real People= 7x-12

This past semester however I've been writing a Screenplay so all my extra time away from school was spent mostly on that.  Telling people, "I'm writing a screenplay," usually is met with the response, "why." First, I just wanted to see if I could do it. Second, because it's an enjoyable experience. Even my mother's reaction when I told her was something like this...

"Where did I go wrong."

Also, for a good portion of this last year I have been hitting up a well known little application known as Tinder. To summarize it briefly, the user swipes through pictures either liking or not liking a picture of another given user of the opposite sex if both people end up liking each other's picture then "it's a match" pops up on your screen and you win a free Frosty courtesy of Wendy's.

The "offer" that can't be refused

Sadly, a Frosty is not the reward instead a chat window appears and the user can set up a date with the user that matched with them. I know what my viewers are thinking, "That sounds like a hunting ground for serial killers and a pretty impressive back story to a Broadway romance." Despite sounding like the most shallow app on earth it's really not all that bad. I actually have it on good authority that it was the same software used when Barack Obama chose Joe Biden as a running mate.

"I'm interested if you are Joe"

 The user judges someone almost entirely on their looks and a short brief summary they write about themselves. It is perfect for people who lack any depth in their character. I always thought I had a great depth until I took one of those Disney character personality quizzes and ended up being Aladdin...'s...Monkey....'s....hat.

For me Tinder combined two of my four favorite things in this world. First judging random strangers on an attraction and work-ability based scale much akin to that used by cattle farmers...

Pretty deep ribbed but I'll give it a 7

And second meeting strange people that I could write about in my blog. (Just for your information my other two favorite things are counting tree rings and rubbing my face on freshly dried clothes). And in the strange people category Tinder did not fail to disappoint it gave me material for one of my best blog posts The Stalker. So it was cool but not really my style in the end I prefer passively ignoring/staring at women until they are willed into asking me out. Have a good week and rejoice for the blog is back.